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Circumcision: Is society torn between Church and traditional initiation?

Early this week, Peter Onyango, 44, was circumcised by force in front of his wife and children in Bungoma County. A neighbour revealed that it was his wife of eight years who had revealed that he was uncircumcised after they had an argument, and arranged for the cutting.

A mob picked him up, took him to the river, and smeared him with mud before parading him for the cut, as reported by The Standard.

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